# tapu
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Maori tapu. Doublet of kapu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑːpuː/
* Rhymes: -ɑːpu

### Noun

tapu (countable and uncountable, plural tapus)
* (New Zealand) Alternative form of taboo
** 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:Spies were sent to test the Moriori’s mettle by violating tapu & despoiling holy sites.

### Verb

tapu (third-person singular simple present tapus, present participle tapuing, simple past and past participle tapued)
* (New Zealand) Alternative form of taboo
** 1859, Arthur Saunders Thomson, The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present, page 105:Tapuing seeds and fields are types of the English laws for protecting out-door property; women tapued to men is matrimony; tapuing sick persons is analogous to the quarantine orders against lepers, the plague and the yellow fever.

### Antonyms

* noa

### Anagrams

* APTU, Tupa, UATP, patu, puta

## Kaurna
### Noun

tapu
* the common Australian fly (musca vetustissima)
* one of two men at either side of the line at the beginning of the Kaurna circumcision ceremony

## Latvian
### Noun

tapu f
* inflection of tapa:
** accusative/instrumental singular
** genitive plural

### Verb

tapu
* first-person singular past indicative of tapt

## Malecite-Passamaquoddy
### Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *ta·paw-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.pu/, [ˈda˧˦.bu]

### Numeral

tapu
* (in counting) Synonym of nis (“two”)

### References

* Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language portal
* LeSourd, Philip S. (1993) Accent and Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy, New York: Garland Publishing

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Cognate with Hawaiian kapu.

### Adjective

tapu
* holy, sacred, consecrated
* restricted, prohibited, forbidden

### Noun

tapu
* taboo, restriction (as a spiritual or supernatural condition)

#### Synonyms

* ārai

#### Antonyms

* noa

#### Descendants

* → English: tapu

### References

* “tapu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Quechua
### Noun

tapu
* question

#### Declension
## Rapa Nui
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

### Adjective

tapu
* sacred, taboo

## Samoan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

### Noun

tapu
* taboo

### Adjective

tapu
* taboo

## Sranan Tongo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.pu/

### Etymology 1

From English top.

#### Preposition

tapu
* on, on top of

### Etymology 2

From English stop.

#### Verb

tapu
* to stop

## Tahitian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.pu/

### Noun

tapu
* taboo
* oath, pledge

### Adjective

tapu
* sacred, taboo, forbidden

#### References

* Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
* “tapu” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.pu/

### Noun

tapu
* an anchor

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tokelauan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tapu. Cognates include Hawaiian kapu and Samoan tapu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈta.pu]
* Hyphenation: ta‧pu

### Verb

tapu
* (stative) to be forbidden, taboo

#### Derived terms

* Agāga Tapu

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 373

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طاپو (tapu, “service; demesne allocated in return for service”), from Old Anatolian Turkish طاپو (tapu); equivalent to tap- (“to serve”) +‎ -u (deverbal nominal suffix). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tapuġ, “service, servitude”).

### Noun

tapu (definite accusative tapuyu, plural tapular)
* deed (document)
* deed office, for example the registrar of landownership

#### Related terms

* tapmak

#### Further reading

* “tapu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tapu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## West Makian
### Etymology

From Ternate tapu (“anchor”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt̪a.pu/

### Noun

tapu
* an anchor

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics